As that guy got out of the room, i removed the blanket i had on me, i sat on the bed with a blank expression on my face, wondering what just happened, who was that guy and why the scene that just happened looked so real to me, i sensed the chills that came from the blade, he had put near my face .
Can a dream be really that realistic, i pinched my hand, but unfortunately due to how strong my current body is, i felt nothing, but my doubts also hadn't got cleared up, no it somewhat increased after that guy went out, he mentioned something about me being his COUSIN, i don't remember having a cousin who held a dagger close to my face before, what was going on here, i wonder .
As if hit by a sudden realization, i kept looking at the mirror and thinking that it can't be, i was now remembering what happened before back at the city gate, when those guys who were accompanied by a Rat-like demon came through the gate, before i lost consciousness, i could swear that i heard one of them calling me, but here is the weird part he wasn't calling me with my actual name Ryuu, no he was calling me Callen .
I do remember that part just as i was beginning to lose my conscious and then i appeared here, i stood up from the bed and went to open the window in the room for a real quick look of what was going on, i saw a familiar red sky, no sun and no moon still .
The scene that came in front of me next was a spacious courtyard, a garden and different styles of building that unlike the ones in Troland, those looked quite modern to me, they were similar to the buildings back in my old world, but they seemed a little bit outdated, i kept hearing a bustling noise, coming from outside the huge gate that was in the distance, surrounding by numerous walls, i sighed and once again closed the window and finally came to a conclusion .
This wasn't a dream, at least i no longer believe so and for many reasons, the most essential reason was the fact that my original face changed to that of the Dorell family member named Callen in the mirror and that shouldn't be possible if that was a dream, not to mention the incident was the guy from before .
Speaking of this, what exactly did he not intended to hand over, now is not the time to dwell on this too much, if i'm not wrong in the conclusion i draw, this was the reality not a dream or hallucinations or anything like that, the place where i currently lay in is most likely inside the city of Devons, i now understood why the bad premonition i had before intensified after i laid my eyes on the guys that stepped out of the gate .
The worst case scenario happened and it must have something to do with that demon rat from before, if i'm not wrong, then i was currently in the house of Dorell family and got identified as Callen Loon, i want to panic, but i couldn't, not in here, not like this .
I need to asses my situation first, i was in the enemies territory, i currently had no clue whether they truly believe i'm Callen or were they just trying to figure out who was trying to trick them here .
When they killed that guy before, it was mentioned that the people in his family might got the news of him dying, so me appearing in front of them like that, after they thought me dead, must raise their suspicions to an incredulous level .
I wouldn't be surprised, if someone was currently keeping a close eye on me, or multiple people at that, but weird enough, i wasn't able to sense any gazes aimed towards me, but that didn't calm me down in the slightest, i was completely unable to think of a plan out of here, at least a stealthily one, i could just go berserk and destroy whoever comes my way, but that would be a stupid thing to do .
After my thoughts kept going back and forth for a few minutes, i released a sighed of relief, the sudden relief came from the fact that i was now inside the city as i wanted to previously, now i will just need to dig for more information about the identity of the girl enslaved by that King Devo, i also hope to find that guy Ludo in the city, we have unfinished business with one another, this time i might really bring someone that could kill him with me .
As my thoughts cleared, i began to feel more relaxed than before, i regained my full confidence in my ability to deal with this current situation in any way i liked, after all unless the whole city ganged up on me, i could beat everyone in this city, no one is excluded, with a strengthened resolve, my doubts began to dissipate, my rationality returned and gained control of my thoughts as before .
I was left bare chested but at least they seemed to have provided a trousers to cover my lower body with, i went to the wardrobe and saw that it was filled with different styles of luxurious clothes all looked quite modern as well, there were suits and even modern underwear, different kinds of tee-shirts and variety of casual clothes put on there .
I didn't even need to think how did the demons got their hands on those things, i remembered that there were a few costume clothes that was made by one of the female heroes, she seemed to have become something akin to a Brand in clothes industry here, so the demons who had control over the heroes might have got even more inspired by the ideas those heroes had .
A modern demon city, just the thought of this put a smile on my face, i tried to put on one of the suits, but the size wasn't fitting and i ended in ripping them, i tried to wear a different set of suits, but it seemed that all of them were of the same size, i tried injecting Mana into them thinking that they were made from the same magical cloth, i saw before, but after i injected a lot of my Mana into it for quite the period of time, nothing happened at all .
I settled in wearing an oversized tee-shirt and a legging pants that was similar to the one i was wearing before and looked in the mirror and thought to myself, i might be more good looking than before with the Red hair and eyes together with the fare facial features, but contrary to before my current apperance gave a different vibe than before, a sinister one .
I went then to the door and the moment i put my hands on the handle, i hesitated to open the door, i looked at the window and thought that if i wanted to escape, the window would be the better choice for me .
But escaping wasn't my plan at all, due to being forced by the circumstances, the plan i had in mind about going back to Troland first got thrown out completely from my mind, ironically the plan i was forced to carry on, was the one that i didn't want anything to do with it the most, i will be now mimicking the actions of the Demon Emperor and infiltrate the Demon race from the inside .
Yes i will carry on the plan that guy Ludo suggested to me with a bit few modifications done to it by me, so to make it more flexible to deal with all sorts of situations .
I would still need to find Ludo to fill me in with more information about the Dorell family matters and the guy Callen Loon, he had searched his memories before, so he would be a huge help in that regard, as i thought of this, i couldn't help but wonder whether he had still the intention to meet me outside the City Gates, or was from the start, he was trying to find a way, he could use to slip away .
I will find out the moment i meet him, i opened the door and the first thing that came to my sight was a long corridor that was connected to the stairs leading downwards and some were leading upwards, rooms were lined up next to each other, there were numerous rooms, i wonder how many people were living in this family mansion, the mansion seemed to feature a European style of architecture and design, i was really beginning to enjoy the taste the demons have, the place looked quite majestic and grandeur .
Painting were hanged up in every part of the corridor, some were portraits of family members, some i did see before, some were gathering what i presumed to be the whole family in it, but i was surprised to see that the guy I'm using his face currently Callen hadn't made an appearance in any of these portraits, the room i was in before also hadn't had a picture of him, but there was a guy similar to him in looks in some of the portraits, but that was all .
That made me remember a thing that Ludo mentioned previously about that guy being an illegitimate child so that could explain why he didn't make a single apperance in any of those photos, bluntly he wasn't worthy to do so .
I was also seeing some disturbing portraits on the wall as i was heading towards the stairs, one of them almost gave me a heart attack, it was a screaming ghost, just as i passed it, the head of the ghost came out of the picture and screamed loudly in my ears, i turned and punched it out Instinctively, but my punch just passed through it without causing much of a damage, it seemed that whatever that hanged picture was .
It seemed that the ghost inside of it was in a semi tangible and intangible kind of state, i was frustrated at the fact that i was losing to a ghost that came out of a picture, my mentality seemed to have changed with me turning into a demon, i was becoming easy to be provoked .
I reached for the frame of the picture and pulled out of the air, then i raised it up in the sky and punched hard towards it the moment it began falling down, completely destroyed the picture together with the ghost inside of it, the moment the picture was destroyed, purple colored Mana came out of it and the cut pieces of the picture, suddenly turned white, i marveled a bit at that, but i also began to understand that from now on i would be witnessing a lot of weird things .
I reached the stairs and went downwards, the moment i put my first step on the stairs, i heard a voice calling the guy who i currently looked like out, saying :
It's good you are finally awake Callen, i hope you have rested well, come and join us .
I wondered how he did the person know that i was the one taking the stairs, but it didn't matter whether he called me out or not, i was still going downwards anyway, so the moment he called me, i didn't say a word in response, all i did was taking down the stairs, but it seemed that i did something wrong because just as i appeard on that floor, i saw someone snorting at me, then he stood up and pointed at me, then said in a rude tone :
Why didn't you answer the family head just now, did your upbringing and origin as a illegitimate child made you lose all your manner, you didn't even greeted him or your elders properly, are you trying to rebel ? .
The scene playing in front of me filled me with a bit of deja vu, i sensed that i had been in a similar, almost identical kind of situation like the one in front of me, but i can't seem to recall where or when did that exactly happened, how weird .
The guy who was yelling at me and was calling me out for being disrespectful to all the people who were currently present, was a tall guy with white hair, he wasn't taller than me still, but i said tall and meant if i compared him to normal people, he was also quite fat, which made his whole body to look weird,he seemed to be quite old, yet even from the distance between the two of us, i can tell that he was still quite strong, at least that was what i was thinking .
The guy was wearing an attire that consisted of a robe with the mixed color of Red and Black, he had quite the angry expression on his face and as i got closer to where the meeting table they all sat on was, i was able to see clearly that the old guy in front of me seemed to be holding quite the grudge towards me, it didn't need a genius to understand that from his intense glare towards me .
It seemed that the attire that consisted of a robe colored with the mix of Red And Black seemed to be some kind of a dress code, since all the others who sat at the table were all dressing in the same way, the scene looked quite aligned, all until me and my casual clothes made an appearance, breaking that harmony in the process .
Some of the people who sat at the table, began to nod their heads at the words said by him just now, but there were also a few members who for some reason seemed to be afraid of voicing out their opinions for some reason, but even if they didn't voice their opinions out loud, from their expressions i was quite certain that they were internally agreeing with what that guy just said .
If they had the habit of greeting each other here, i believe that i was indeed in the wrong for being rude, but it wasn't like, i can do anything to not be misunderstood like that, after all, i know nothing about how those guys greeted each other, so even though there was a mistake on my part, i had no clue about how to fix it .
But other than those two groups, the guys who were agreeing openly and those who agreed inwardly and both seemed to be approving with the words said by that previous guys .
There were also a set of eyes who were looking at me with tenderness and closeness, those eyes belonged to a guy sitting next to the so-called Family Head, but those emotions in his eyes were not strange to me, i had already seen the emotions on those two eyes before .